Installation of new Plant Guards.
On our property we have a major problem with rabbits destroying our plants. It has become such a problem that we have had to install rabbit fencing around the vegetable garden and where we had planted trees around the property had installed plant guards. However the plant guards were of a very poor quality being made of very flimsy plastic and not sufficiently tall. The rabbits were both digging under the guards and ring barking the trees as well as topping them. Basically the plants guards weren't doing their job so we decided to up our game and make life a little more difficult for the bunnies and bought solid plant guards made of corflute (a corrugated plastic) 40cm high and far more robust.
Previously I had struggled to install the bamboo canes to support the flimsier plant guards (which required three canes per plant guard). Although the new plant guards required only one bamboo cane I didn't relish trying to pushing the cane into our soil which can be very stony. So I came up with the idea of hammering in the canes but with the canes being so flexible I was worried that they would break, so the solution was to drill a hole partially through a piece of wood which could be placed over the cane, providing some support to the cane and this hammer the piece of wood (a far easier target:>)
This system has worked very well with only a couple of canes having broken and the ones that didn't break have made for a FAR more stable plant guards that should give the bunnies more trouble to dig under or to top the plants. Just for good measure I have also added a square piece of weed mat under the plant guard. So far the system has worked very well with no rabbit damage to date, although it is still early times.
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